Reducing Global Warming and Adapting to Climate Change: The Potential of Organic Agriculture [PDF]
, 2012 Climate change mitigation is urgent and adaptation to climate change is crucial, particularly in agriculture, where food security is at stake. Agriculture, currently responsible for 20-30% of global greenhouse gas emissions counting direct and indirect ...
Davis, J. +7 more
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Reducing Global Warming: The Potential of Organic Agriculture [PDF]
, 2012 Climate change mitigation is urgent, and adaptation to climate change is crucial, particularly in agriculture, where food security is at stake. Agriculture, currently responsible for 20-30% of global greenhouse gas emissions (counting direct and indirect
Davis, Joan +7 more
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Will policy support for organic farming be justified in the future? The environmental impacts of organic farming [PDF]
, 2002 Introduction: In the European Union, organic farming has experienced a dynamic development in the 1990s, in part debited to financial support from agricultural policy measures. The most commonly used argument in support of organic farming is its positive
Dabbert, S., Häring, A. M., Stolze, M.
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The World of Organic Agriculture - Statistics and Emerging Trends 2004 [PDF]
, 2004 In 1999, BioFach/Oekowelt GmbH commissioned Foundation Ecology & Agriculture SOEL to compile statistical data and general information on organic agriculture world-wide. Since then this study has been revised annually, and the newest figures are regularly
Willer, Helga, Yussefi, Minou
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Policy bias and agriculture: partial and general equilibrium measures [PDF]
The paper examines the impact of industrial protection, agricultural export taxes, and overvaluation of the exchange rate on the balance between the agricultural and non-agricultural sectors.
Bautista, Romeo M. +3 more
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Brand Agriculture and Economic Geography: A General Equilibrium Analysis [PDF]
This paper presents a general equilibrium model of NEG incorporating the brand agriculture which produces differentiated agricultural products. Focusing on the core-periphery space, we show that highly differentiated brand agriculture can be sustained in
Masahisa Fujita, Nobuaki Hamaguchi
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"Organic District": identification methodology and agricultural policy objectives [PDF]
Italy, unlike other countries, has included the territorial dimension in the recent interventions and regulations of organic agriculture, introducing explicitly the concept of “organic district”.
Franco, Silvio +2 more
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Production of organic seeds: Status, Challenges and Prospects [PDF]
, 2005 General article on the requirements of organic agriculture for seed production. Beside this the organic agricultural system has other demands for organic seed since it does not use chemical control measures and uses natural fertilizers instead of ...
Berg, W.J. van der +4 more
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Towards more ecoefficient food production: MFA approach [PDF]
, 2004 The food flux comprises four mutually linked loops: 1)plant production, 2)livestock husbandry, 3) food processing industry and 4) human consumption. In the present paper MFA approach has been used to describe the system. A general framework and practical
Koikkalainen, K. +4 more
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THE ECONOMIC CONTRIBUTION OF AGRICULTURE IN DELAWARE [PDF]
The decreasing share of production agriculture in the U.S. economy in general and Delaware in particular has raised questions about the amount of government resources being spent on the local agricultural sector.
Hastings, Steven E. +2 more
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